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by Otterly99 3mo ago
Do you even bother to click on links before asking a question? There is a whole paragraph on "Statistical analysis" that even provides five supplementary methods (S1.5, S2.2 and S2.4-6) if you want detailed information.
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by Otterly99 3mo ago
This is impressive and, I think, complements well whatever benchmark is the hottest right now.
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by Otterly99 3mo ago
Unless you're working on private data, is it such a problem to let Cursor train on your data? I personally work mostly on small, unoriginal projects. I don't really mind letting Cursor keep the data for training if it leads to a b
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by Otterly99 3mo ago
I think it can be more useful to think in terms of hours of lessons rather than time spent learning. My partner is learning french right now at a private school and they have occasional classes (1h30 once a week), middle ground (2h twice a
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by Otterly99 3mo ago
The situation is kind of similar in my country (France). My partner and I lived together in Czech Republic for 7 years where I was working as a scientist (EU to EU, pretty much no paperwork involved). She is american and obtained a "pa
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by Otterly99 3mo ago
Why should right wing populism be the alternative thought? Couldn't we have a decent alternative?
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by Otterly99 4mo ago
The only skill I genuinely find useful is the /strategic-compact from ecc (everything Claude Code) but you can get the same effect by saying something like "I am going to compact the session, give the next Claude session a summary
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by Otterly99 4mo ago
I hard the pleasure to assist David Hu's talk a few years ago where he presented his work on feline tongues, frogs tongues and wombat poop. Really fun guy. I always wondered how he got his funding because studying the "physics of
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by Otterly99 4mo ago
I completely agree with this post. After I used it in one session of 300k tokens, I had maybe 3k tokens saved. Plus, if commits really are an issue for you in term of tolen consumption, you can always ask to hand over the reigns and apply t
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by Otterly99 5mo ago
Sounds like you found peace. Good for you brother/sister. What are your responsibilities at the co-op? I thought the idea was that people would work a few hours to get access to the product, but you said you work full-time.
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by Otterly99 5mo ago
Which to me, raises an interesting question: - How many individual components do you need for it to emerge? Most people would be okay with saying that individual cells are not conscious, maybe even that tree are not conscious even thought t
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by Otterly99 5mo ago
Maths skills have been slowly falling even before the advent of LLMs. I have a story but this is anecdotical so take it with a grain of salt. I was in my 3rd bachelor's year studying physics (France) and overheard a conversation betwee
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by Otterly99 5mo ago
There is also one thing I would like to add, and you can correct me if you disagree: coding benefits much more from thorough planning. Now, I exclusively work by first writing a plan that has well-defined steps and goals, which can of cours
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by Otterly99 5mo ago
I also find it amusing. I also heard a lot of "4.7 is garbage, everybody hates it". Shows you how important proper validation techniques are, not just gut feeling.
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by Otterly99 5mo ago
Honestly, scientists too. I did 10 years of research after deciding that it was not worth it. There is a vast amount of research with no direct application that gets published under the assumption that more knowledge is always better, but i
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Meow-Omni 1: a multi-modal feline LLM(arxiv.org)
3 points by Otterly99 5mo ago|0 comments
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by Otterly99 6mo ago
I think it has taken a rather negative connotation with the development of psychology, marketing and "influencers" which are usually people that try to influence you to buy into something.
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by Otterly99 6mo ago
I also immediately thought about his book on creativity. Thanks for the talk. For me, instead of staring at a wall, I just take a short walk. I think doing any activity with low mental load helps creativity.
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Void: A physics-aware video editing tool by Netflix(void-model.github.io)
2 points by Otterly99 6mo ago|0 comments
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by Otterly99 7mo ago
It's the same story since at least 2012. It is well documented in the book "The chaos machine" by Max Fisher. Facebook employees, journalists and psychologists have studied the phenomenon and Facebook's (as well as Youtu
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by Otterly99 7mo ago
It seems to me that it is broadly the same thing, except they give you the resources to do it and expert knowledge.
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by Otterly99 7mo ago
I feel like even the phrasing of the original assumption that "we have more bank tellers now that we had before", which seems to imply that ATMs didn't affect or even boost the number of bank tellers is flawed. If you look at
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by Otterly99 7mo ago
Not sure how that makes sense, it takes a third of the time, but you're only going 5 km/h faster?
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by Otterly99 7mo ago
Thank you for the link. I admit, my knowledge of reinforcement learning is a bit outdated so it seemed to me that it was unattainable for a non-specialized model to train efficiently on something like chess, which has a huge state space.
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by Otterly99 7mo ago
Every scientist I ever met (and myself included) has a backlog of papers to read that never seems to shrink. It really is not trivial to stay up to date on research, even in niche fields, considering the huge volume of research that is bein
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by Otterly99 7mo ago
Some jobs that I interviewed replied with an automated email saying that, if I wanted, I could ask for feedback. I always did and none of them replied... This somehow feels even more insulting.
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by Otterly99 7mo ago
I tried it for 2 days and honestly don't see the usefulness either. Although, the big reason is that I paired it with Claude, which only uses the per token billing method. Here are the few improvement on a simple Claude usage: - As you
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by Otterly99 7mo ago
This is a typical evolutionary arms race, advertisers come up with better tool to fuck with us, we have to come up with better defense systems.
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by Otterly99 7mo ago
Damn, they have the same post over there: https://clackernews.com/item/675
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by Otterly99 7mo ago
Seems like the best way to reach AGI is to give LLMs anxiety.

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